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title: But one day the Princess, wandering sadly by the river, spied Prince… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: But one day the Princess, wandering sadly by the river, spied Prince Featherhead fast asleep in the shade of a tree, and stole nearer to enjoy the delight of gazing at his dear face unobserved. Who acts: Princess, delight. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Featherhead and t
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# The Green Fairy Book, Prince Featherhead and the Princess Celandine, sentence 67

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But one day the Princess, wandering sadly by the river, spied Prince Featherhead fast asleep in the shade of a tree, and stole nearer to enjoy the delight of gazing at his dear face unobserved.

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**Who acts:** Princess, delight · **What happens:** wonder, spy, steal, enjoy, gaze, unobserv · **To what, where:** Prince Featherhead, delight, dear face, tree

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Featherhead and the Princess Celandine. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Princess, delight), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher.** This tree is Mova's own parse (the `en` model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg7277:12:67
# text = But one day the Princess, wandering sadly by the river, spied Prince Featherhead fast asleep in the shade of a tree, and stole nearer to enjoy the delight of gazing at his dear face unobserved.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
2	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl:unmarked	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	Princess	Princess	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	wandering	wonder	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	acl	_	_
8	sadly	sadly	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
9	by	by	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
13	spied	spy	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	Featherhead	featherhead	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	fast	fast	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	17	advmod	_	_
17	asleep	asleep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	shade	shade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	stole	steal	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
27	nearer	near	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	26	xcomp	_	_
28	to	to	PART	TO	_	29	mark	_	_
29	enjoy	enjoy	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	xcomp	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	delight	delight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	_
32	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	33	mark	_	_
33	gazing	gaze	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	31	acl	_	_
34	at	at	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
35	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	37	nmod:poss	_	_
36	dear	dear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
37	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	_
38	unobserved	unobserv	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	37	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wonder** *speech: ask* | gerund | the Princess *not said here* |  |  |  |  | by the river; sadly *property* | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **spy** | past |  | Prince Featherhead |  |  | day |  | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer featherhead=Stimulus |
| 3 | **steal** | past |  |  |  |  |  | near *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **enjoy** | to-infinitive |  | the delight |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer delight=Stimulus |
| 5 | **gaze** | gerund | the delight *not said here* |  |  |  |  | at Featherhead's dear face | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at face=Theme |
| 6 | **unobserv** | participle |  | Featherhead's dear face *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **shade** |  |  | a tree |  |  |  |  | nom shade «state transitive»: of=patient |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Text:** «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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